Word: plan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the U. S. Government was by way of becoming the biggest grocer of all time. Youngish (39) former cotton-bag-maker Milo Randolph Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, announced immediate expansion of the New Deal's orange-&-blue food stamp plan to Birmingham, Des Moines, Shawnee, Okla...
Success in the first three experimental cities (Rochester, Dayton, Seattle) where the plan has pleased grocers, bankers, reliefers, farmers and social welfare workers, apparently has led FSCC to contemplate extension of the plan to 100 more cities...
Circulating in world capitals for days were vague reports that the British Government was again negotiating with Adolf Hitler over the impending crisis in the Free City of Danzig. One account told of a "positive peace plan" in which the Germans would be offered an international loan of $5,000,000,000 to enable them to change the Third Reich's economy from a war to a peace basis. Another story, originating in Washington and printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, predicted a five-nation conference between Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy and Poland which would give Danzig to Germany...
Storm. The Wohlthat-Hudson discussions were supposed to be secret and confidential. Dr. Wohlthat returned to Germany to report to Field Marshal Göring, but scarcely had he left before the plan-and garbled versions of it-had leaked out all over the world, much to the Secretary's annoyance and embarrassment. Early this week a sizable Parliamentary storm was coming up, and the British public, in no mood for further appeasement, was definitely angry...
...answer to SEC's demand that Wall Street set up brokerage banks to hold all the cash and securities of brokers' customers, the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight set up a four-man committee to formulate a plan. Chosen to head it last week was Roswell Magill, father of the New Deal's 1938 Tax Bill, Under Secretary of the Treasury from early 1937 till last year when he resigned to return to his Manhattan law practice and Columbia teaching...